Re: Working directory in menu items?

[Ben FrantzDale <bfrantzdale hmc edu>]

On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 10:03, Moses McKnight wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is there a way to set a "working directory" for a menu item in the Gnome menu? 
> Windows has something like that and it changes the working directory for that 
> program when launched.  The reason I want this is that many gnome programs don't 
> remember the last place you opened or saved (especially) a file and just default 
> back to $HOME which is almost always *not* where I want it.
> 
> Thanks,
> Moses

According to
http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec.html the Path field of a .desktop file gives it the working directory. I just tried this with gnome-terminal and it didn't appear to work (perhaps because gnome-terminal cd's to $HOME by default?).

--Ben